It’s finally official…
Toshiba announced last week that it’s throwing in the towel on HD-DVD. It will cease making players or promoting the standard, effectively ceding the high-definition media format war to it’s rival BluRay.
This didn’t really come as a surprise to anyone that was paying attention…
Things just started to pile up against the format. […]
Archive for February, 2008
BluRay: The Fight Still Ahead…
Published February 25th, 2008 in Digital Media and Emerging Technology. 2 Comments
I saw this wonderful mockup of an iPhone application…
Phil Lu over at Genoco put together this fantastic mockup of a mobile Starbucks “Quickorder” application for the iPhone. While I believe it was intended as a fanciful way to demonstrate Mr. Lu’s considerable design talents, it is really an excellent example of the direction mobile […]
Money Tech 2008…
Published February 7th, 2008 in Current Events, Emerging Technology and Internet. 0 CommentsI had the opportunity to speak yesterday at Money Tech 2008…
The conference, hosted by O’Reily Media right here in New York, was focused on the convergence of Web 2.0 and Wall Street.
I took the opportunity to talk abstractly about the process of information discovery, and how it has changed since the arrival of […]
Microsoft & Yahoo - The Time Is Right…
Published February 1st, 2008 in Internet, Marketplace and Microsoft. 0 CommentsIt may be happening…
Reuters is reporting that Microsoft has made a formal bid for Yahoo:
Technology giant Microsoft Corp said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock.
Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a […]
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